Stephen Alpher

Stephen is CoinDesk's managing editor for Markets. He previously served as managing editor at Seeking Alpha. A native of suburban Washington, D.C., Stephen went to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, majoring in finance. He holds BTC above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Markets

Strategy Adds Additional $1.42B of Bitcoin With Latest Purchase

The company stack is worth more than $52 billion at bitcoin's current price of $95,000.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor standing. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk))

Finance

Crypto Exchange Kraken Launches FX Perpetual Futures, Offers 24/7 Trading in Forex Majors

The first contracts, EUR/USD and GBP/USD, are now live on Kraken Pro.

Kraken on phone (PiggyBank/ Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin in Standstill at $85K as Trump Increases Pressure on Fed's Powell

A sharp plunge in the Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index coupled with rising prices added to U.S. stagflation fears amid the tariff war.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on April 17 (CoinDesk)

Policy

Hidden Road, Set to Be Acquired by Ripple, Wins U.S. Broker-Dealer License

Issued by FINRA, the license will allow the company to broaden fixed income prime brokerage services for institutional clients.

FINRA (Credit: Andriy Blokhin / Shutterstock)

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Markets

LayerZero's ZRO Jumps 10% as VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz Buys $55M Worth

The venture capital firm's ZRO acquisition follows previous investments in the protocol.

LayerZero co-founders CTO Ryan Zarick and CEO Bryan Pellegrino (Chung Chow, BIV)

Markets

Crypto Stock Tracking ETF Coming Soon From VanEck

The VanEck Onchain Economy ETF (NODE) is expected to start trading on May 14th with a management fee of 0.69%.

Jan van Eck, president and CEO of asset manager VanEck, speaks at Consensus Invest 2018 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Rally Short-Circuited as Fed Chair Powell Raises Stagflation Fear

"We may find ourselves in the challenging scenario in which our dual-mandate goals are in tension," said Powell of the effect of the Trump tariffs.

Photo of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

Finance

Neutrl Raises $5M to Tokenize a Popular Hedge Fund Altcoin Trade

The protocol's NUSD token generates yield by arbitraging locked altcoins, a $10 billion private market, Neutrl co-founder Behrin Naidoo said in an interview.

U.S. dollar (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Markets

Bitcoin's True Capitulation Zone Is $65K, Says Well-Followed Analyst

That level represents the average investor’s cost basis, said James Check, who expects the $50,000 area to offer strong long-term support.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Mantra Plans 'Comprehensive Burn Program' of OM Following 90% Crash

OM recently fell from over $6 to under $0.45 in a matter of hours on no apparent catalyst

Flames rise from charcoal (Alexas_Fotos/Pixabay)